Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.

It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should mean homogeneity.

I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.

Endurance, I reminded myself, is the true measure of existence.

What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.

Something needn't be large to be good.

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.

Where we have a different background [with Hillary Clinton] on this issue is we differ on the war in Iraq, which created barbaric organizations like ISIS.

I did everything I could except win. I feel fine. I just played bad at a big time.

Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

Pray for a peaceful and contented mind in all circumstances.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.